As a SpEd teacher in a school, a lot of the roles you listed as extra things are not mental health specialists, they are SpEd workers (ie the occupational therapist, Behavior resource, etc.). We are not trained on how to actually help with mental health, just how to help students perform at school
Thank you for the correction! I tried looking into the roles when I was researching it all and somehow couldn’t find it. Last night someone explained to me what an occupational therapist actually was and it was egg on my face after the video already being out. But nevertheless, the fact that they’re not for mental health further indicates how poorly mental health is being addressed
I'm so glad this popped up in my recommended. You are obviously an extremely skilled editor, writer, and storyteller. You deserve way more subscribers.
I'm so glad someone has decided to bring awareness to the mind-boggling things this district does. As someone that went to Mebane and Santa Fe and who is still somewhat involved with both schools 4 years post-graduation, its fascinating how many stories I have of incompetent administration at both schools. Great video!
This is one of my favorite video essays! Like so amazingly detailed and researched… You literally have a bright future in whatever you want to pursue! So glad the algorithm gave me this
Santa Fe highschool had a TV production program, it was cut because the teacher left for a job that paid better. The entire thing was highly censored and there was no creative freedom.
Didn’t expect to see a video about my school district on my timeline this morning. It is so weird to hear the schools I’ve been going to for so long be mentioned. Edit: WAIT YOU WHERE THAT GUY ON THE NEWS FUCK YEAH. Its so dogshit now the audio is fucking terrible I’m gonna edit this as we go through: Pervis now does the announcements like half the time
I don't live anywhere near Florida, but still incredibly glad this video showed up in my feed. The storytelling here is amazing and I was hooked in immediately. Also, the way you described train of thought with working on stuff with ADHD finally made me realize why I can't work well without listening to something or having an internal dialog in the background. I have genuinely never connected that with my ADHD, so thanks for that.
I'm primarily intrigued bc I'm from and work for a neighboring district. I gotta be so upfront, man; I understand you were the backbone of the morning announcements but you're not beating the narcissism allegations 😅 This might totally be on me for expecting a video essay tho I will see the vid through to completion, Im anticipating gory details and I love seeing students being clever and subversive!
Love that you are continuing your passion after high school. Please keep pushing until you can get a job in the field! You'd be valuable to whoever is willing to work with you!
i feel like this video will become super popular i feel it in my bones… it’s really high quality production wise and you’re very good at telling stories and retaining attention :) kinda reminds me of hbomb a bit
really great video !!! i love your style of storytelling and the nintendo music bg :-) really interested in seeing where this story goes, you earned a new subscriber ! keep it up man
As someone who worked in the school board race for alachua county, it's crazy the level of corruption and negligence in our school district. Data is thrown away, the whole administration is run by a club of social climbing cronies who consistently fail the district, and it leads to charter bills that screw over students because the charters in the county are also mismanaged. It's great to see a video that shows the personal effects that this would have on a student.
my high school had a “gossip account” that was fully dedicated just to posting people’s shoes. they’d take pictures under the desks n on the yard, but also under bathroom stalls. I personally reported it to the staff several times (because even if names/faces aren’t being shown there’s still a clear danger to whipping out your phone camera in the bathrooms. if you’re doing that obviously it’s not Really about the shoes, which you can take pictures of literally anywhere else) n they did absolutely fuck all. it’s been a few years n I still get irrationally angry whenever I think about it. hope that kid caught a fucking case
i went to the same school as u and I remember those jake show segments lol. also was surprised with the production value cause my middle school did the same thing but was obviously not as good so good on you dawg! honestly the whole mental health this is a ouroborus cause on one hand they are not giving money for mental health so kids arent getting the help they need and that's how you end up with a school that gets so many threats it gets known for it. i always kinda saw that there weren't enough counselors and that they weren't really equipped to handle the types of situations that kids were going through so I stopped going when I realized there wasn't help for me, which is really unfortunate but I'm glad I didn't do anything because of the lack of help I was getting although I do know people who have died by suicide and it makes me really sad to see that acps doesn't really care about that at all and they'd just rather remake another school or something like that. ALSO the discrimination and segregation was absolutely real in other schools I remember a teacher calling the non gifted kids bad and wild and other crazy shit that even as a kid I was wondering why she would say things like that. ok I know this got yappy but 1 more thing. i definitely understand the whole thing with purvis 💀💀 there was a walkout where we literally stood in the mall for like a minute and then purvis came out and said there is no walkout and to go back to class and that it had to be "approved" by them, its a walkout??? it shouldn't have to be approved?? but he literally just said there was an "approved one" happening soon that we could go to and it straight up never happened. basically I'm glad u made this video and you kept it real and that's awesome.
I'm a 29 year old trans woman from Maryland who has never heard of either you nor this district. This documentary is fascinating and has kept me riveted. You're going places, dude. To be a millennial with prequel memes... We will watch your career with great interest.
This is so well done Jake. I feel like I have such a similar story to you with my morning announcements! This is an incredibly important video to have made.
Yeeeeeah, this is unfortunately what most schools across the U.S. are just... like. So, so much of this is painfully reminiscent of my own experience in school, and I'm all the way up north. It's frustrating.
The homophobia that they mask under the guise of "practicality", the refusing to put anything in writing, the protection and defense of bullies, the overwhelming indifference to student mental health. It's the story of my high school education, too. I hate to think about how many kids across the country this is all happening to right now. It doesn't get better when you go north.
this is awesome. your dedication to your craft is so emboldened by everything you do. you deserve a great position doing investigate journalism as a job. fuck this school district tho. they're worse than mine was.
I live nowhere near Florida, but this story was genuinely riveting!! Not only was it an expose on all the shitty mismanagement by the district, but it also gave me a sense of catharsis. It seems to some extent (at least in America) all schools have dumb bureaucratic bullshit you have to wade through to get things done. Insane that administration feel that they have the power to change things on a whim because they don't like it. But this well-written and wonderfully edited video feels like exactly the kind of FUCK YOU message I wish I'd been able to send my own high school (and college, too if I'm being so honest). I'm so glad you had a supportive parent who worked with you as well as a supportive teacher. Kids deserve to be taken seriously. And the practically transparent way they denied your request simply because it was the Trevor Project was appalling.
I feel connected to you on a soul level... I was very controversial but involved in my high school's administration. It felt great to see you be able to report and air your thoughts to thousands of people. It's a type of revenge for us who actually care about the education system but never had the ability or power to shape it :( I hope the public school system moves forward from gossip accounts and petty admin feuds
Any district spending ESSR money on staff meant to be permanent is short sighted given the funds aren’t permanent. Not when there’s a “spend it or lose it” cap, and not when GCs have the expectation of tenure. Teacher raises sound great but my home district can no longer support it (there was also some missed fine print) and we are fucked as a result (Durham county). Those things have to be part of the general fund or everyone is getting fired when the stimulus runs out. That has been happening this year. That doesn’t mean you can’t get mental health services, but it’s better to contract it out if it’s not from the general fund because it’s only there for the year. This might be why the support staff aren’t GCs, they have an expiration date. Easier to use that kind of funding on lower level staff Mental health services and one time grants don’t belong in the same sentence. Make a list of all the one-time expenses that could benefit the students like important renovations, student org funding, a little extra classroom budget money for teachers etc. You gotta plan for what to do when it runs out. Not to say they aren’t corrupt, but if you can access it, looking for any massive changes in general fund spending around that time would provide a better picture.
this one is going on the favorite video essays playlist fs thank you for the detailed look at the school district I’m currently in and dealing with as a student. I remember you from the news!! nowadays the purv does everything and it’s not nearly as fun to watch.
Wow. Just...wow. I hope this video gets the views and attention it deserves. I hope this channel gets the views and attention it deserves! Fantastic work, especially with making the video accessible to people (like me, a Canadian!) not familiar with BHS/ACPS/SBAC, or how school districts/administrations as a whole work. The effort you've put into this could not be more obvious. Again, fantastic work. :)
Dude you’re a great storyteller and I was instantly invested in all your anecdotes and experiences. I’m only almost halfway through so far but I’m having a great time ✌️
props to you for making this video. i have a somewhat similar story. in my country (poland) dyslexia papers used to get kids extra time during exams. so in my city full of rich families that wanted their kids to have smooth school career and get into idk med uni to ~continue family legacy~... there was a whole dyslexia papers scheme going on. first the kid had to do somewhat badly to get flagged by teacher and then get tested by school counsellor type person, and then refered to the district office for "kids with needs" to get your papers (that you had to renew every 3 years). kids were either coached on what to do to get that certified dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, you name it... or the district office person cooked their assessment results to give the parents what they wanted. whenever we had a big, school-wide tests, kids with papers were put in a special separate room due to extra time (+50% iirc) bonus. majority of those students weren't barely passing classes like me, they were straight As students, it was laughable. cause i used to go to regular school witb fellow not so rich kids where dyslexic kids were struggling with learning, then i went to middle school for rich, smart kids... just because my father used the 'if you're poor enough we will let your kid attend the school. diversity!' loophole. and licherally not only there were more kids with dyslexia in the "better" school, but also you licherally couldn't tell. it was such a weird experience cause i couldn't help but compare myself. yeah maybe they were good students because their parents gave shit and mine were neglecful? who knoes. maybe i'm jealous. maybe i'm even bitter! and yet some years later some of the dyslexia mafia people got busted and i felt vindicated. ofc it got buried because it was a bad look for the whole city, but i will never forget! the extra time bonus wasn't a thing by the time i finished high school, they changed it to 'you can make 2 more mistakes while writing an essay'. also last time i checked, once a kid is diagnosed with dyslexia they no longer have to renew their papers every 3 years. however now adhd is the new dyslexia it seems and every september-december adhd meds sales are reaching new heights (i experienced the shortage when i was prescribed adhd med in oct despite not being diagnosed with it lmao. only one pharmacy in 20km radius had it!)
I’m only 3 minutes in and can 1000% relate to a subject completely consuming your life. I look forward to watching this and learning about a nearby county, but honestly, I mostly hope this was therapeutic for you. Take care of you.
i remember seeing you on the morning news at school all the time and i just sent this video to my brother and he said he’s still waiting on 2k of financial aid from santa fe but they haven’t been answering anyone’s questions or talking to anyone about it and it’s a LOT of people it’s happening to like lawyers are getting involved
Im also a child of the alachua county school district (graduated GHS in 2017) and while my memories of my k-12 education arent that clear, what I DISTINCTLY remember is how little the teachers got paid. The teachers of Alachua county make some of the lowest salaries in the state, yet are still expected to teach children how to be functional members of society.
You’re making me feel very insecure my man. Because it seems like you were smarter and more capable at 17 than I am now at 35. Did you even struggle with executive disfunction?!?
I unfortunately went to Lincoln Middle School and the racism was hidden under the guise of lyceum/advanced program differences. How we as program kids were "different" and "better behaved". The teachers were obvious about it; any of them who had non program classes would always complain about "those kids" and how much "smarter" we were. I also went to Eastside, and the counselor was only used to ensure we got the right scholarships. I met mine twice in 4 years for less than 15 minutes each and she was condescending the whole time. When my friend went for mental health issues she was told to ask her parents for therapy, and when another reported abuse by family the counselor met with them and refused to report to CPS. In my time the money was spent on multiple new computer labs while teachers were in portables for multiple years.
This video was incredible! The slow buildup from the administration seeming slightly frustrated by you to actively fighting you trying to do fucking CHARITY work is just...amazing. I mean its super fucked up what they did to you, and how they are seem to not give a single fuck about the mental health of the students...but damn great storytelling!! And the background music is amazing. I'm so sorry your school was like this.
I have some experience with incompetent school administration at my middle school (our school was sued and lost over $10 million because admin was useless in stopping one kid being bullied) and a LOT of mismanaged incident reports (my friend has multiple reports for minor things where the only location & time was the classroom which was sometimes not correct and all of them say 12:00, even when it didn't happen at 12:00 along with undescriptive summaries). A lot of social media problems are also mismanaged, and general behavior is still as poor as when we came back from covid. I don't see many people like you who have the time and passion to make something like this, and a lot of school districts have similar problems.
28:53 see that same year I did have 2 free periods due to being in the hospital the start of senior year thanks to working at the camp funded by Alachua county, where the nurse there ignored me the night I started feeling unwell despite going to him 3 different times
This video is so great! I also live in Florida and the mental health department here is completely shit as well. Nice to know what's really going on :D
Okay so, I'm 50 minutes in and so far I have no idea what any of this has to do with a school district stealing money at all. I've watched multiple long, seemingly unnecessary stories about Jake Stalveys personal health struggles. Detailed reports of how stressed or not stressed they were during different periods of editing for their schools news program. And honestly, I'm having trouble ATM seeing Jake sympathetically. Despite the fact that the whole video is from their perspective and they're showing me only what they want me to see I've already seen: -A student clearly using a school news program to make overtly political statements, and then acting like the school was being rude for not wanting that kind of heat and controversy from their in-school news program. -A student wearing an "I heart Hot Moms" shirt being politely asked not to wear it in the in-school news broadcasts, and then the whole crew banding together to be petty by mimicking Walter Kronkite -And he's weirdly upset about a school having an anti-bullying PSA from Burger King for some reason? Like, is it cause it's cringe?, who cares?, it's an anti-bullying PSA they're ALL CRINGE. This is an in-school news broadcast it's gonna be cringe sometimes! Is it that it's too corporate?, like how dare the capitalist scum of Burger King...fund an anti-bullying campaign? I'm as Socialist as they come but it just seems like they're looking for stuff to make a big stink about rn.
I live in Alachua county so I unfortunately do know about it too much and I love this video, it’s so well researched (also I went to High Springs Community and Santa Fe schools, they sucked ass and had low ass budgets)
at first i thought this was a bait and switch but a good one, but man, you stuck the landing. message received. from las vegas but hey. i hope someone bigger picks up this story and picks up where you left off.
Schools spending money on "motivational speakers" is such a copout. They can look like they care, and yet I've never met anyone who was motivated by (or even actually liked) any of the speakers we had. Plus, literally anyone can claim to be a motivational speaker, there are no qualifications, and 90% of the time their advice sucks ass
yo not that i know too much but im pretty sure most of the teachers who where in that "cabal" didnt like u cuz ur videos went into their classtime lol💀
The funding vs staff feels quite disjointed. Though. It seems (seems. Not saying it IS or that im basing this on facts or research) kind of crazy that there "should be" that much staff to cover mental health. Im thinking, is there any statistics that show that by having the amount they have compared to how much they "should" have, that theres detrimental effects on the students? Wish i knew the answer to that. Example: School A has the recommended amount and scored 97/100 School B has the amount you say and scored 34/100 (or 9/100, or 93/100, etc)
I talk about this somewhat in some of my other videos (I think the Fixing Teen Mental Health one). Idk what the exact detrimental effects are for not having the sufficient amount, but it is like *the* big organizations for guidance counselors, school psychologists, and social workers that suggest those ratios
I actually think you shouldve been fine to show what you made for school. Though, I believe you knew what you were doing, you knew people werent happy with #1 and #2, so you chose to do and show #3, but this wasnt exactly wanted by the "parents", and you dont actually think that it was. You knew some people werent happy. Fair play for sticking to it though.
It’s an old minecraft poster from a while ago when it was originally being sold. You can find it online and on eBay if you look up “Half man half pig all zombie”
As a SpEd teacher in a school, a lot of the roles you listed as extra things are not mental health specialists, they are SpEd workers (ie the occupational therapist, Behavior resource, etc.). We are not trained on how to actually help with mental health, just how to help students perform at school
Thank you for the correction! I tried looking into the roles when I was researching it all and somehow couldn’t find it. Last night someone explained to me what an occupational therapist actually was and it was egg on my face after the video already being out. But nevertheless, the fact that they’re not for mental health further indicates how poorly mental health is being addressed
@@jakestalvey Oh so the numbers are so much worse.
the shock on my face when i saw MY county on my youtube recommended and it being an exposé feels unreal. holy crap
no literally..
lol it feels targeted
same LMAO
UA-cam is trying to tell you something
Legit improving my mental health to be reminded there are non-garbage people from Florida!
I'm so glad this popped up in my recommended. You are obviously an extremely skilled editor, writer, and storyteller. You deserve way more subscribers.
I'm so glad someone has decided to bring awareness to the mind-boggling things this district does. As someone that went to Mebane and Santa Fe and who is still somewhat involved with both schools 4 years post-graduation, its fascinating how many stories I have of incompetent administration at both schools. Great video!
This is one of my favorite video essays! Like so amazingly detailed and researched… You literally have a bright future in whatever you want to pursue! So glad the algorithm gave me this
Santa Fe highschool had a TV production program, it was cut because the teacher left for a job that paid better. The entire thing was highly censored and there was no creative freedom.
Video Title really undersells the scope of this project. Amazing work
Didn’t expect to see a video about my school district on my timeline this morning. It is so weird to hear the schools I’ve been going to for so long be mentioned.
Edit: WAIT YOU WHERE THAT GUY ON THE NEWS FUCK YEAH. Its so dogshit now the audio is fucking terrible
I’m gonna edit this as we go through:
Pervis now does the announcements like half the time
this channel is so underrated
I don't live anywhere near Florida, but still incredibly glad this video showed up in my feed. The storytelling here is amazing and I was hooked in immediately.
Also, the way you described train of thought with working on stuff with ADHD finally made me realize why I can't work well without listening to something or having an internal dialog in the background. I have genuinely never connected that with my ADHD, so thanks for that.
I'm primarily intrigued bc I'm from and work for a neighboring district. I gotta be so upfront, man; I understand you were the backbone of the morning announcements but you're not beating the narcissism allegations 😅 This might totally be on me for expecting a video essay tho
I will see the vid through to completion, Im anticipating gory details and I love seeing students being clever and subversive!
This is an amazing video! I’m shocked this has so little views, you deserve waaaay more, you’re incredibly talented and I hope this blows it!
Love that you are continuing your passion after high school. Please keep pushing until you can get a job in the field! You'd be valuable to whoever is willing to work with you!
Need a full investigative video on your former district's whole segregation thing. That's crazy but not uncommon.
i feel like this video will become super popular i feel it in my bones… it’s really high quality production wise and you’re very good at telling stories and retaining attention :) kinda reminds me of hbomb a bit
really great video !!! i love your style of storytelling and the nintendo music bg :-) really interested in seeing where this story goes, you earned a new subscriber ! keep it up man
As someone who worked in the school board race for alachua county, it's crazy the level of corruption and negligence in our school district. Data is thrown away, the whole administration is run by a club of social climbing cronies who consistently fail the district, and it leads to charter bills that screw over students because the charters in the county are also mismanaged.
It's great to see a video that shows the personal effects that this would have on a student.
This guy is like a corrupt buisness man's worst nightmare. They really fucked over the wrong kid 😭.
my high school had a “gossip account” that was fully dedicated just to posting people’s shoes. they’d take pictures under the desks n on the yard, but also under bathroom stalls. I personally reported it to the staff several times (because even if names/faces aren’t being shown there’s still a clear danger to whipping out your phone camera in the bathrooms. if you’re doing that obviously it’s not Really about the shoes, which you can take pictures of literally anywhere else) n they did absolutely fuck all. it’s been a few years n I still get irrationally angry whenever I think about it. hope that kid caught a fucking case
Just watching the first 20 minute of the video, it's crazy how you don't have more views on how high quality and beautiful edited your work is.
i went to the same school as u and I remember those jake show segments lol. also was surprised with the production value cause my middle school did the same thing but was obviously not as good so good on you dawg! honestly the whole mental health this is a ouroborus cause on one hand they are not giving money for mental health so kids arent getting the help they need and that's how you end up with a school that gets so many threats it gets known for it. i always kinda saw that there weren't enough counselors and that they weren't really equipped to handle the types of situations that kids were going through so I stopped going when I realized there wasn't help for me, which is really unfortunate but I'm glad I didn't do anything because of the lack of help I was getting although I do know people who have died by suicide and it makes me really sad to see that acps doesn't really care about that at all and they'd just rather remake another school or something like that. ALSO the discrimination and segregation was absolutely real in other schools I remember a teacher calling the non gifted kids bad and wild and other crazy shit that even as a kid I was wondering why she would say things like that. ok I know this got yappy but 1 more thing. i definitely understand the whole thing with purvis 💀💀 there was a walkout where we literally stood in the mall for like a minute and then purvis came out and said there is no walkout and to go back to class and that it had to be "approved" by them, its a walkout??? it shouldn't have to be approved?? but he literally just said there was an "approved one" happening soon that we could go to and it straight up never happened. basically I'm glad u made this video and you kept it real and that's awesome.
I'm a 29 year old trans woman from Maryland who has never heard of either you nor this district. This documentary is fascinating and has kept me riveted. You're going places, dude.
To be a millennial with prequel memes... We will watch your career with great interest.
This is so well done Jake. I feel like I have such a similar story to you with my morning announcements! This is an incredibly important video to have made.
Yeeeeeah, this is unfortunately what most schools across the U.S. are just... like. So, so much of this is painfully reminiscent of my own experience in school, and I'm all the way up north. It's frustrating.
The homophobia that they mask under the guise of "practicality", the refusing to put anything in writing, the protection and defense of bullies, the overwhelming indifference to student mental health. It's the story of my high school education, too. I hate to think about how many kids across the country this is all happening to right now. It doesn't get better when you go north.
OH MY GOD i remember seeing that segment when the tech wasnt working and it just stuck with me its so surreal seeing this video now
this is awesome. your dedication to your craft is so emboldened by everything you do. you deserve a great position doing investigate journalism as a job.
fuck this school district tho. they're worse than mine was.
I live nowhere near Florida, but this story was genuinely riveting!! Not only was it an expose on all the shitty mismanagement by the district, but it also gave me a sense of catharsis. It seems to some extent (at least in America) all schools have dumb bureaucratic bullshit you have to wade through to get things done. Insane that administration feel that they have the power to change things on a whim because they don't like it. But this well-written and wonderfully edited video feels like exactly the kind of FUCK YOU message I wish I'd been able to send my own high school (and college, too if I'm being so honest). I'm so glad you had a supportive parent who worked with you as well as a supportive teacher. Kids deserve to be taken seriously. And the practically transparent way they denied your request simply because it was the Trevor Project was appalling.
"UA-camr becomes investigative journalist against their will" is my favorite genre
I left Gainesville in 2017 and I’m never going back ,best life choice . Ex GHS/BHS student 🫡
I feel connected to you on a soul level... I was very controversial but involved in my high school's administration. It felt great to see you be able to report and air your thoughts to thousands of people. It's a type of revenge for us who actually care about the education system but never had the ability or power to shape it :( I hope the public school system moves forward from gossip accounts and petty admin feuds
I'm so glad this got recommended to me!! this is really high quality for having so few views, it deserves more! 😺
Any district spending ESSR money on staff meant to be permanent is short sighted given the funds aren’t permanent. Not when there’s a “spend it or lose it” cap, and not when GCs have the expectation of tenure. Teacher raises sound great but my home district can no longer support it (there was also some missed fine print) and we are fucked as a result (Durham county). Those things have to be part of the general fund or everyone is getting fired when the stimulus runs out. That has been happening this year.
That doesn’t mean you can’t get mental health services, but it’s better to contract it out if it’s not from the general fund because it’s only there for the year. This might be why the support staff aren’t GCs, they have an expiration date. Easier to use that kind of funding on lower level staff
Mental health services and one time grants don’t belong in the same sentence. Make a list of all the one-time expenses that could benefit the students like important renovations, student org funding, a little extra classroom budget money for teachers etc. You gotta plan for what to do when it runs out.
Not to say they aren’t corrupt, but if you can access it, looking for any massive changes in general fund spending around that time would provide a better picture.
Amazing work! I deeply appreciate the passion and talent behind this video. Keep it up!!
Im so glad I found this!
this one is going on the favorite video essays playlist fs
thank you for the detailed look at the school district I’m currently in and dealing with as a student. I remember you from the news!! nowadays the purv does everything and it’s not nearly as fun to watch.
This school district stole a comment for engagement
I thought of a better one
why is your tongue blue in the first clip also great work man
@techierl9276 slurpee :3
Current Buchholz high schooler here, this is a really good video. I didn’t realize how insane our district was.
Thank you for sharing your story. This is perfect for my research on school board reform.
This video was great but was honestly very lost as to what the point was for most of it. Title seems a bit misleading tbh. Great work tho!
Wow. Just...wow. I hope this video gets the views and attention it deserves. I hope this channel gets the views and attention it deserves! Fantastic work, especially with making the video accessible to people (like me, a Canadian!) not familiar with BHS/ACPS/SBAC, or how school districts/administrations as a whole work. The effort you've put into this could not be more obvious. Again, fantastic work. :)
It sucks to learn about corruption in your home town, but it also makes me stoked as hell to see a talented, local kid make art about it.
Dude you’re a great storyteller and I was instantly invested in all your anecdotes and experiences. I’m only almost halfway through so far but I’m having a great time ✌️
Ngl, this was a roller coaster. Loved every minute, keep it up!
props to you for making this video. i have a somewhat similar story.
in my country (poland) dyslexia papers used to get kids extra time during exams. so in my city full of rich families that wanted their kids to have smooth school career and get into idk med uni to ~continue family legacy~... there was a whole dyslexia papers scheme going on. first the kid had to do somewhat badly to get flagged by teacher and then get tested by school counsellor type person, and then refered to the district office for "kids with needs" to get your papers (that you had to renew every 3 years). kids were either coached on what to do to get that certified dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, you name it... or the district office person cooked their assessment results to give the parents what they wanted. whenever we had a big, school-wide tests, kids with papers were put in a special separate room due to extra time (+50% iirc) bonus. majority of those students weren't barely passing classes like me, they were straight As students, it was laughable. cause i used to go to regular school witb fellow not so rich kids where dyslexic kids were struggling with learning, then i went to middle school for rich, smart kids... just because my father used the 'if you're poor enough we will let your kid attend the school. diversity!' loophole. and licherally not only there were more kids with dyslexia in the "better" school, but also you licherally couldn't tell. it was such a weird experience cause i couldn't help but compare myself. yeah maybe they were good students because their parents gave shit and mine were neglecful? who knoes. maybe i'm jealous. maybe i'm even bitter!
and yet some years later some of the dyslexia mafia people got busted and i felt vindicated. ofc it got buried because it was a bad look for the whole city, but i will never forget! the extra time bonus wasn't a thing by the time i finished high school, they changed it to 'you can make 2 more mistakes while writing an essay'. also last time i checked, once a kid is diagnosed with dyslexia they no longer have to renew their papers every 3 years. however now adhd is the new dyslexia it seems and every september-december adhd meds sales are reaching new heights (i experienced the shortage when i was prescribed adhd med in oct despite not being diagnosed with it lmao. only one pharmacy in 20km radius had it!)
dude also your editing skills are professional HELL!!! I'd love to work with you some time!
I’m only 3 minutes in and can 1000% relate to a subject completely consuming your life. I look forward to watching this and learning about a nearby county, but honestly, I mostly hope this was therapeutic for you. Take care of you.
very weird that my friend is employed as a school teacher in this county and this got suggested to me despite us being multiple states away
i remember seeing you on the morning news at school all the time and i just sent this video to my brother and he said he’s still waiting on 2k of financial aid from santa fe but they haven’t been answering anyone’s questions or talking to anyone about it and it’s a LOT of people it’s happening to like lawyers are getting involved
you deserve more subscribers
the principal of norton elementary was straight up evil to my autistic little brother btw
Oh that’s cool!
Administrators having personal vendettas seems to be an oddly recurring theme
Im also a child of the alachua county school district (graduated GHS in 2017) and while my memories of my k-12 education arent that clear, what I DISTINCTLY remember is how little the teachers got paid. The teachers of Alachua county make some of the lowest salaries in the state, yet are still expected to teach children how to be functional members of society.
You’re making me feel very insecure my man. Because it seems like you were smarter and more capable at 17 than I am now at 35. Did you even struggle with executive disfunction?!?
the second u said bomb threats i knew it was buchholz
I unfortunately went to Lincoln Middle School and the racism was hidden under the guise of lyceum/advanced program differences. How we as program kids were "different" and "better behaved". The teachers were obvious about it; any of them who had non program classes would always complain about "those kids" and how much "smarter" we were. I also went to Eastside, and the counselor was only used to ensure we got the right scholarships. I met mine twice in 4 years for less than 15 minutes each and she was condescending the whole time. When my friend went for mental health issues she was told to ask her parents for therapy, and when another reported abuse by family the counselor met with them and refused to report to CPS. In my time the money was spent on multiple new computer labs while teachers were in portables for multiple years.
This video was incredible! The slow buildup from the administration seeming slightly frustrated by you to actively fighting you trying to do fucking CHARITY work is just...amazing. I mean its super fucked up what they did to you, and how they are seem to not give a single fuck about the mental health of the students...but damn great storytelling!! And the background music is amazing. I'm so sorry your school was like this.
I only just learned where Gatorade got its name from, don't drink that piss water but now I know.
Get all the fucking eyeballs on this pleeaaaase
binging this rn 🔥
Underrated video
Wow my family has been working there for two generations
When the video has such a good hook you gotta put it to watch later to sit and watch undistracted
I have some experience with incompetent school administration at my middle school (our school was sued and lost over $10 million because admin was useless in stopping one kid being bullied) and a LOT of mismanaged incident reports (my friend has multiple reports for minor things where the only location & time was the classroom which was sometimes not correct and all of them say 12:00, even when it didn't happen at 12:00 along with undescriptive summaries). A lot of social media problems are also mismanaged, and general behavior is still as poor as when we came back from covid. I don't see many people like you who have the time and passion to make something like this, and a lot of school districts have similar problems.
28:53 see that same year I did have 2 free periods due to being in the hospital the start of senior year thanks to working at the camp funded by Alachua county, where the nurse there ignored me the night I started feeling unwell despite going to him 3 different times
i so glad i came across this video, needs more views and reconigtion
The video is cool and well researched other than the segment about peaking in HS.
This was a wild ride wtf. Thanks UA-cam!
23:10 even if by accident, this goes hard if i went there that would've made my day seeing someone have a sentiment I can relate to when at school 😂
1:28:00 students just make a sock account (account with no name/identity associated with it) and follow the account that way anonymously
This video is so great! I also live in Florida and the mental health department here is completely shit as well. Nice to know what's really going on :D
Fellow Gainesville UA-cam creator 🙏good stuff 🙏
People like you are why FL will be going thru a big shift in the next couple decades. For the good!
Love it!
Okay so, I'm 50 minutes in and so far I have no idea what any of this has to do with a school district stealing money at all.
I've watched multiple long, seemingly unnecessary stories about Jake Stalveys personal health struggles. Detailed reports of how stressed or not stressed they were during different periods of editing for their schools news program.
And honestly, I'm having trouble ATM seeing Jake sympathetically. Despite the fact that the whole video is from their perspective and they're showing me only what they want me to see I've already seen:
-A student clearly using a school news program to make overtly political statements, and then acting like the school was being rude for not wanting that kind of heat and controversy from their in-school news program.
-A student wearing an "I heart Hot Moms" shirt being politely asked not to wear it in the in-school news broadcasts, and then the whole crew banding together to be petty by mimicking Walter Kronkite
-And he's weirdly upset about a school having an anti-bullying PSA from Burger King for some reason?
Like, is it cause it's cringe?, who cares?, it's an anti-bullying PSA they're ALL CRINGE. This is an in-school news broadcast it's gonna be cringe sometimes! Is it that it's too corporate?, like how dare the capitalist scum of Burger King...fund an anti-bullying campaign?
I'm as Socialist as they come but it just seems like they're looking for stuff to make a big stink about rn.
I live in Alachua county so I unfortunately do know about it too much and I love this video, it’s so well researched (also I went to High Springs Community and Santa Fe schools, they sucked ass and had low ass budgets)
You ARE the main character
at first i thought this was a bait and switch but a good one, but man, you stuck the landing. message received. from las vegas but hey. i hope someone bigger picks up this story and picks up where you left off.
fantastic video; super riveting!
Love word of the day rip
Schools spending money on "motivational speakers" is such a copout. They can look like they care, and yet I've never met anyone who was motivated by (or even actually liked) any of the speakers we had. Plus, literally anyone can claim to be a motivational speaker, there are no qualifications, and 90% of the time their advice sucks ass
Love this video
omg i’m from here
im at UF they stealing my monies every day
🙏🪦
God this vid is good
Nice
yo not that i know too much but im pretty sure most of the teachers who where in that "cabal" didnt like u cuz ur videos went into their classtime lol💀
The funding vs staff feels quite disjointed.
Though. It seems (seems. Not saying it IS or that im basing this on facts or research) kind of crazy that there "should be" that much staff to cover mental health.
Im thinking, is there any statistics that show that by having the amount they have compared to how much they "should" have, that theres detrimental effects on the students? Wish i knew the answer to that.
Example:
School A has the recommended amount and scored 97/100
School B has the amount you say and scored 34/100 (or 9/100, or 93/100, etc)
I talk about this somewhat in some of my other videos (I think the Fixing Teen Mental Health one). Idk what the exact detrimental effects are for not having the sufficient amount, but it is like *the* big organizations for guidance counselors, school psychologists, and social workers that suggest those ratios
I actually think you shouldve been fine to show what you made for school. Though, I believe you knew what you were doing, you knew people werent happy with #1 and #2, so you chose to do and show #3, but this wasnt exactly wanted by the "parents", and you dont actually think that it was. You knew some people werent happy.
Fair play for sticking to it though.
go gators
yassss diva
what is that poster of behind you at 5:18 I really want to get it
It’s an old minecraft poster from a while ago when it was originally being sold. You can find it online and on eBay if you look up “Half man half pig all zombie”
Putnam Country Local here so this was well wow
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